Tag Archives: Julian Schnabel

willingly the ghetto: knowledge acquired in childhood

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Dave

Eastside and Westside story. Two different worlds. Zionism in the form of Herzl was really the creation of white liberal social democratic thinking. A conjunction of the Enlightenment connected to a Jewish identity that could be refashioned in the age … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alan Arkin, Balachovitz, Bielski Jewish partisans, Danny kaye, efraim halevy, eichmann trial, Frank Dimant, Freida Pinto, Gideon Hausner, Hannah Arendt, Harvey Weinstein, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Joseph Trumpeldor, Julian Schnabel, Julian Schnabel Miral, Liev Schreiber, Louis Rukeyser, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moshe Ronen, Rula Jebreal, Shlomo Carlebach, Theodor Herzl, Zeev Jabotinsky | Leave a comment

the pain and beauty of it all

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Dave

Poignant. Heart tugging. Hard to imagine that an immensely talented artist like Edward Landseer, a technical gymnast and stuntman could waste time plumbing the depths of anecdotal gimmick. A weird tryst between feeding increasingly affluent purchasers with the most tacky … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Dickens, Damien Hirst, Edward Landseer, French Salon painting, gilbert and george, Joseph Beuys, Julian Schnabel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, marshall berman, sir edward landseer | Leave a comment

hard to spot betrayal

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Dave

From a very extensive review of Donald Kuspit’s The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist which in part, dismantles Kuspit’s argument and by extension also reinforces much of what is written. The problem is that Kuspit is a near genius, collecting … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, barnett newman, Billy Wilder, Donald Kuspit, emmet cole, Julian Schnabel, Kazimir Malevich, Marcel Duchamp, Marilyn Monroe, mark kostabi, Mark Rothko, Martin Heidegger, michael sladek, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, sean scully, Wassily Kandinsky, wayne owens, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

flush hard: we’ve come a long way?

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dave

The cliche that newness has become. Its hard to argue with Donald Kuspit’s assertions on modern art, beginning with Marcel Duchamp’s Ready Mades as a confidence game, with the ready made being a surrogate for the female body. His bases … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andres Serrano, Anita Sarkeesian, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, francis m. naumann, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath, Julian Schnabel, Marcel Duchamp, marie-therese walter, Marquis de Sade, marshal berman, marshall berman, Michael Balint, Pablo Picasso, paul mccarthy, sidney janis, Slavoj Zizek, Thorstein Veblen, tim wise, vincent desiderio | Leave a comment

wearing a mask that grins and lies

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Dave

We often have a sometimes contradictory and ambiguous relationship to popular culture. In one way, its potentially powerful means to share knowledge and criticize consumer society across different boundaries in an oppositional and sometimes subversive manner. However, against this backdrop, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Allan Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Bell Hooks, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, Grace Lee Boggs, jane campion, jean michel basquiet, jodie foster, joseph heath, Joshua Glenn, Julian Schnabel, norman kelley, Norman Mailer, Robert Hughes, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, zora neale hurston | Leave a comment

CHOKING ON CAKE: BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Dave

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” ( Keynes, 1935) And thus it began with adherence to Keynes’s central theme: the modern capitalist economy does not … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Allan Greenspan, Andy Warhol, Bloomsbury Group, Cindy Sherman, Claude Monet, Damian Da Costa, Damien Hirst, Daniella Luxembourg, Debbie Reynolds, Don Thompson, Eddie Fisher, Edgar Hardcastle, Elizabeth Taylor, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Frederic Fekkai, G.E. Moore, Jared Bland, Jeff Koons, John Maynard Keynes, John Muth, Julian Schnabel, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Marc Quinn, Maurizio Cattelan, Miryam Lindberg, Nate Freeman, Pablo Picasso, Peter Brant, Philippe Segalot, Richard Nixon, Richard Prince, Simon De Pury, Stanley Kubrick, Stephanie Seymour, Virginia Woolf | Leave a comment

STREET ART DOWN PAVEMENT LESS TRAVELED

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Dave

Jean Dubuffet ( 1901-1985 ) was one of the few artists devoted to ”keeping it real” and this involved a deliberately anti-psychological and anti-personal approach to art.All of his work stands aesthetically somewhere between the beautiful and the awkward, the … Continue reading →